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Animal-rights activists get worse every year, calling our children who participate in FFA or 4H livestock exhibitions “murders,” “slave owners,” and some things too extreme to print. The first time I encountered this type of extremist activism was when I read a Protect the Harvest blog post responding to PETA2’s hit piece called “FFA is Lame AF.” Lovely. PETA2 is PETA’s Youth Education Program (basically, propaganda for youth).
In PETA’s “FFA is Lame AF” post, the activists accuse the National FFA Organization of not upholding its Code of Ethics because of the youth group’s support of animal agriculture. So, because the FFA promotes a keystone element of agriculture (livestock), PETA wants to see them go by the wayside or eliminate the animal agriculture elements in the FFA.
PETA’s attacks on 4-H and the FFA go back years. In case you are thinking, “Let them attack the FFA and 4-H, they can’t hurt us, they can’t turn the public against us,” it’s important to note that, in 2019, PETA brought in $45,581,725 to help wage this war against ag and take aim at our youth. That is twice as much as the FFA and approximately the same as the National 4-H Council.
PETA is just one organization fighting to end animal agriculture, and the activists have set their sights on our children. The Humane Society of the United States is another major activist organization, one that has attempted to infiltrate 4-H. Several 4-H clubs were able to see them for what they were, and HSUS was unsuccessful.